You’ve probably been wowed by some sites that have storytelling animations on their homepage.  It’s a great way to captivate your viewers and tell your story far more effectively than with a plain, static page.  Here are some sites that enable you to create animations:

www.rawshorts.com

www.goanimate.com

www.xtranormal.com

www.dvolver.com/moviemaker/make.html

www.voki.com

I recommend visiting each of these sites.  You get a feel for the style of their animation pretty quickly.

Online Video Editing

YouTube has some recommendations for online video services: http://www.youtube.com/create